A good mind possesses a kingdom. [ Proverb ]
An honest heart possesses a kingdom. [ Seneca ]
An incurable itch for writing possesses many. [ Juv ]
No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life. [ J. G. Holland ]
The knowledge of the charms one possesses prompts one to utilize them. [ Senancourt ]
Of all things that man possesses, women alone take pleasure in being possessed. [ Malherbe ]
When the devil of contradiction once possesses a man, he is hard to be cast out. [ Proverb ]
Death possesses a good deal of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town. [ Hawthorne ]
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. [ Mme. de Stael ]
Wine, though it possesses good qualities, was forbidden by the prophet, because it attacked reason. [ Hais-Bais ]
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin. [ J. G. Holland ]
There are men whose tongues are more eloquent than those of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of a woman's eye. [ C. Weber ]
Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival. [ Montaigne ]
There are men the eloquence of whose tongues surpasses that of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of women's eyes. [ Weber ]
Of many imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot. [ Dr. Johnson ]
A great writer possesses, so to speak, an individual and unchangeable style, which does not permit him easily to preserve the anonymous. [ Voltaire ]
A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again. [ Joseph Roux ]
Putting thoughts in writing. It resembles a tradesman taking stock, without which he never knows either what he possesses, or in what he is deficient. [ John Hunter ]
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning. [ Joubert ]
One could not wish any man to fall into a fault; yet it is often precisely after a fault, or a crime even, that the morality which is in a man first unfolds itself, and what of strength he as a man possesses, now when all else is gone from him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite - variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite - energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not. [ Ruskin ]
The study of art possesses this great and peculiar charm, that it is absolutely unconnected with the struggles and contests of ordinary life. By private interests, by political questions, men are deeply divided, and set at variance; but beyond and above all such party strifes, they are attracted and united by a taste for the beautiful in art. [ Guizot ]